Safeguard Director of a big international ruled by means of the only reigning monarch all through neohuman interstellar society, Klavik has been conditioned to acutely understand the emotional states of others. The respected ruler of Kraan is assassinated in far-off Eden, a terraformed excitement global owned by way of an alien syndicate.

The shrine international of Divinatus major has develop into misplaced to the sunshine of the Astronomican and no send can piece its veil. basically the Lord of demise himself, Blood Angels leader Librarian Mephiston, has any wish of discerning the destiny of this as soon as pious global. After enacting a robust blood ritual, Mephiston and an honour defend of his fellow Blood Angels achieve the bothered shrine global to discover it seized via a non secular civil conflict.